Writer/Artist Joel Rivers, brings his Xeric-wining western 6-issues series, Along the Canadian, to the digital book website, WOWIO, based, appropriately, in Texas.
Along the Canadian is a tale of bad men, outlaws and lawmen both, vengeful ghosts, immortal hillbillies and a scruffy sheriff and his friends caught in the middle. The setting is the famed Canadian River in Oklahoma Territory, where Belle Starr roamed, famous for outlaws and bloody feuds.
A 6-issue mini-series originally published nationally starting in 2003 that ran bi-monthly, the story combining researched historical facts with purely fictional characters. The protagonist, Sheriff “Red” Johnston, is a stubborn and honorable man who believes that the Law can enact justice in a land filled with violence and greed. His original three deputies seem standard western posse-men, but have the long shadows and bloody footprints of the real men that “won” the West. The Natives, far from being easily bribed with glass beads and talking in halting English, are survivors that have consciously avoided civilization, and whose world-view is vastly different from the settlers closing in around them. In his journey, the sheriff travels through two worlds, the world of the rapidly changing western frontier, with exacting historical research, and the supernatural world of the dead.
Johnston’s Nemesis, the violent Marshal Blythe, is an old enemy from the War Between the States, now the “Law” in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), just west of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Their verbal and physical duel, waged as men of opposite moralities, is more then “good” verses “evil,” it’s the quick verses the dead. Not all is as it seems, along the Canadian. Now on the digital book web-store WOWIO.com.
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